teacher performance
Teacher Playing with Music at Recital
At my end of year recital, for the first time I will be playing and one of my choices is Silent Night Blues by Neil Moore and my own composition Bush Christmas. I enjoy playing and hope that feeling is felt by others. Do you…
My Recent Recital
Last night I had some of my students performing at an end-of-the-school-year piano concert. Ages were 1st graders thru 9th grade. What fun! We had duets on the piano, piano and solo singers, accompanying audience sing-a-longs, original arrangements, etc. One little girl played 2 of…
Annual Concert
I have always dreaded organizing Concerts ever since I started traditional teaching 24 years ago. Becoming a Simply Music teacher made the songs fantastic, but did not take away the struggles of organizing the annual Concerts. This year, my husband suggested putting it back into…
Teacher playing at recitals
For the first time, I played at my students’ recital tonight. It was pretty fun, and I was surprised at the families’ reactions. I heard several moms whisper to their kids “your teacher’s going to play!”. I didn’t expect them to be excited. I demo…